Re: SCA history from my perspective... Ameoba and my recollection of other games

On Aug 20, 11:04 pm, jk <kles...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What makes you think it was outlawed?

Mother Mo Cridhe! <kate.mccri...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Hee hee... I thought, why not?
I'm one of the central culprits for an old SCA game... the Ameoba. (I
have no idea what so ever if this game is still played, but it is
silly.)

It was Arwyn & Chepe's wedding, Three Rivers on the campus of
Washington University.
It started out, I was standing arm in arm with Corwin and Cyfruis (...
uh... that don't look right, but...). We were just standing around
that way and chattering. Corwin's wife, Linnet came up and twine her
arm around him, and we kept chattering away. Cyfruis' other girl
friend came along and twine her arm around him, and we kept chattering
away. Karl von Kuhlmann came along (Cyfruis' other girlfriend's other
boyfriend...), and joined in... pretty soon, more folks were joining
in this arm in arm line-up, I think just because the proportions were
beginning to be silly enough to be fun looking.
Pretty soon, the two on oposite ends of the line-up decided that they
should close the ends and shuffled the line into a circle.
By this time we were all pretty silly, so we went along with it,
giggling and snorting all the way.
Well... all that giggling & snorting in this circle... more folks just
had to squeeze in... and there was more giggling... which attracted
more people...
Pretty soon a couple of folks suggested that this formation was
resembling an ameoba.
What do ameobas do?
They wander around and eat up other organisms...
So, giggling and snorting and someone started chanting "Ameoba-ameoba-
ameoba..." and we started capturing other people on the grounds and
squeezing them into the circle.
Pretty soon there were more people playing Ameoba than were loose on
the grounds...
And that's how Ameoba started.

Anybody remember Clench a Wench?
The one and only time I ever played it, the game had just recently
been outlawed in the SCA. However, at a private revel... actually...
I believe it was just someone's birthday party of close friends, all
of whom happened to be in the SCA.
In this particular game, the guys were assigned letters and the gals
were assigned numbers.
Anyrate, things were progressing and a lot of us were wondering why
the game was outlawed, we were all having fun and things were
progressing as they should.
By the time it was my turn to sit in the middle and call out a letter
and a number, I really had honestly figured out who was assigned which
letter or number. But... I was more suseptible to my hypoglycemia in
those days, having indulged in a hefty portion of cake and other
sweets, I was getting pretty hungry for protien... specifically...
steak... nice... tender... fire grilled... BOVINE BLOOD MEAT!!!
With out much thought I called out "A-1"
Then... I realised who I called out.
I heard the war cries from both sides of me.
I looked one way and saw Linnet in full charge.
I looked the other way and saw Corwin in full charge.
I squawked, covered my head with my arms and rolled up into an uber-
fetal position.
I had knees in my back, elbows cracking me in the skull, hands clawing
at my shoulders and arms, and TWO PEOPLE RIGHT ON TOP OF ME!!!
Luckily, I am a fair sized gal, even then, when I looked like a
skeleton, I weighed in at 140 pounds (I'm 6' tall), so I wasn't any
more injured than a small bruise to my ribs. I was able to emerge
laughing at the good natured rough housing...
On the other hand, it was quickly decided that that was the very
reason Clench a Wench was outlawed, and the game was immediately
disbanded.

Come to think of it... I wonder what ever happened to Corwin & Linnet?

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Clench a Wench was outlawed in the Middle Kingdom ... oh... it was
before Calontir was even a principality, I'm not even sure Calontir
was named at that time... uhm... it would have been XIV or there
abouts, I think.

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